(Illustration by C R Sasikumar) (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)In today’s environment of omnipresent social media, itchy fingers create controversy. Many were horrified and voices not in support of the action could be heard, even from the uniformed community. Yet, this event does throw up the need for nimbleness in monitoring, assessing nuisance value and creating an immediate counter-narrative, in these days of psychological warfare through social media. Social media handling is, therefore, important. The control on social media — already underway as an emergent measure — will be resisted by rights groups.

Source: Indian Express April 21, 2017 18:22 UTC